Background
McNamee, Gregory Lewis was born on April 12, 1957 in Frankfurt, Germany. (parents American citizens). Son of Martin Lewis and Cleo Jenean (Black) McNamee.
(For 60 million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hud...)
For 60 million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona. This richly documented history of the Gila from its geological origins to the present was first published in 1994 and is now available only from UNM Press.
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(No animal has occupied so central a role in human culture...)
No animal has occupied so central a role in human culture as the wolf, Canis lupus, and for good reason: no animal is quite like our pretechnological selves. Thousands of years ago, before the rise of agriculture and urban civilization, wolves and our forebears lived as social animals in small, free-ranging bands. Both were largely unaffected by predation from competing species; both were commensal, sharing food and friendship; and both were intelligent killers, rarely wanton, rarely wasteful, who relied on a highly evolved program of signals and language to coordinate their efforts. In the Presence of Wolves presents a surprisingly diverse body of myth, legend, and literature that both illustrates the wolf's importance to human thought and chronicles the wolf's changing fortunes. Art Wolfe brings these legends and folklore alive with a career collection of compelling and vivid images. This creative photographic exploration offers a sweeping but intimate look at the wolf and its environment -- a powerful reminder of how noble and magical this animal can be. Drawing on the literature and memories of Native American cultures, the mythologies of classical Greece and Rome, the legends of Asian and African gatherer-hunter peoples, and writings by contemporary observers of lupine behavior, Greg McNamee provides a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind anthology of writings about the wolf. In his introduction, McNamee traces the progression of the wolf from companion to competitor, offering a thorough overview of lupine culture that can help us understand Canis lupus as a kindred being.
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( For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than th...)
For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona. Today, for at least half its length, the Gila is dead, like so many of the West's great rivers, owing to overgrazing, damming, and other practices. This richly documented cautionary tale narrates the Gila's natural and human history. Now updated, McNamee's study traces recent efforts to resuscitate portions of this important riparian corridor.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826352472/?tag=2022091-20
(The end of the twentieth century represents an unsettled ...)
The end of the twentieth century represents an unsettled time, and the contemporary Southwest, as seen by Virgil Hancock III in these fifty-two exquisite color photographs, is a strange place full of omens and signs. His images peer beyond the scenery, beyond the tourism-council view of this region as a storied land of golf courses and climate-controlled shopping centers. He gets at the soul of the Southwest, of the nation, and, in his best photographs, at the human condition itself, seizing on the accidental symbols that speak to our yearnings and shortfalls: skyward-pointing arrows and crosses and dreams just beyond reach at Indian casinos, failed department stores, retirement cities. He photographs signs of the violence that has been endemic to the region and shows us ruins, not of the Anasazi or Spanish missions, but of commercialization, scarcely twenty years old, already gone belly-up. Hancock records decay and despair with beauty and elegance, creating a powerful and unflinching document of the post-Cold War West. In his eloquent essay, Gregory McNamee plumbs the cultural backdrop to this visual portrait, the collision of past and future, sacred and profane.
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McNamee, Gregory Lewis was born on April 12, 1957 in Frankfurt, Germany. (parents American citizens). Son of Martin Lewis and Cleo Jenean (Black) McNamee.
Bachelor in Classics, University Arizona, 1978. Master of Arts in English, University Arizona, 1980.
Editor University Arizona Press, Tucson, 1981-1985, editor-in-chief, 1985-1990. President Sonora Wordworks, since 1990.
(The end of the twentieth century represents an unsettled ...)
( For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than th...)
(For 60 million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hud...)
(No animal has occupied so central a role in human culture...)
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Native Seeds, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Marianne Banes, 1999.